Leadership
How to Grow Your Audience: 3 Keys to Creating Content People Actually Want to Read or See
Chances are that this week you’re going to write something or upload something you hope people will want to look at. And if you’re like most content creators, what you produce will likely get ignored by almost everyone. You’ll work…
3 Things Young Leaders Need To Hear From Their Boss, But Almost Never Do
This is a guest blog post by Dillon Smith. Dillon is my content manager and is a member of my new Speaking Team. You can book Dillon to speak at your next event here. Knowing how to lead the next generation is…
5 Signs You’re Becoming an Irrelevant Leader
So how relevant are you as a leader? Any idea how you’d answer that accurately? You can debate how important relevance is all day long (and many do), but the truth is irrelevant leaders make almost no impact on the…
5 Surprising Characteristics That Separate Great Leaders From Other Leaders
Naturally, you want to be a better leader. Intention, of course, won’t get you there. If only it were that easy. So, how do you improve? One of the ways is you can look at the habits and characteristics of…
7 Kinds of People You Can’t Afford to Keep In Leadership
There’s a secret fear most leaders have: losing people. It can seem so hard to reach people and keep them that losing a customer, a client, a staff member, a person in your church, or even a subscriber to your…
Dear Discouraged Leader (5 Questions to Ask Before You Implode)
Dear Discouraged Leader, Being a leader isn’t the easiest thing in the world. But it isn’t the hardest thing in the world either. You’re not alone. Leadership is hard at times. In fact, if you’re really leading, there’s rarely a…
5 Challenges With Being a Local Pastor (or Leader) in the Age of Social Media
Social media is changing you and me in more profound ways than any of us imagine. Like a growing number of people, I’m increasingly concerned with how addictive tech has become, and am leaning in on the arguments that some…
7 Early Warning Signs Your Heart Is Growing Hard in Leadership
If you’re like me, the longer you serve in leadership, the more intentional you have to become at keeping your heart open and fully alive. Hardness of heart is a condition that people on the wrong side of God and people develop. Biblically,…
How To Stack Your Leadership Pipeline With The Best Volunteers and Team Members
There Are Two Kinds of Team Members So let’s start with a simple reality. There are essentially two kinds of people: leaders and doers. Leaders gladly rise to a challenge and can take others with them. Doers, on the other…
7 Ways To Beat Discouragement in Leadership
If you talk to most leaders long enough to get a real answer to ‘So how’s it going?” you will quickly discover that a surprising number of leaders are disheartened. Even discouraged. You know what thousands of leaders facing many different situations have…
5 Signs You’re A Slave To Leadership Chaos
Like anyone who has led for over a few years, you’ve probably sensed that things feel a little more chaotic today than they did a few years ago. You may wonder why, but think about the change you’ve witnessed in…
7 Things The Smartest Leaders Always Make Time For
It’s difficult to find the time to do everything on your list at work, let alone in life. And if you really drill down on it, there are at least 7 things in leadership most leaders feel there will never…